The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04


system that has east foul blot on my native
state, endears him to every honest humane
| Georgian fApplause.l
In that campaign he took unmistakable
position to veto any measure looking to the
sale OF the State road. When that monerel
ton-tom, the majority report, proposing to sell
the State road, comes before him. knowing
John B. Gordon as do from his past, and
bound by his sacred promise and his duty to
the people OF Georgia, he win
PROMPTLY PLACE HIS VETO
On that mongrel production. Governor Cor
don has been true so far, and I believe he
Will be true to the end.
But to return to this itineratng commission
IN all street They come opposite Clew's
Office. Henry Clews! You have heard of
him. He is somewhat identified with this
matter, and propose to review him and his
coadjutors and copartners in Georgia. Clews
VIII offer $S,00o,0O0 in repudiated bonds for
the road.
The majority report means nothing but
bids for the sale. Mine means lease and lease
emily. The minority fixes the minimum q
$4,000 per month, 1t can be leased in thirty
days for that sum. l propose to offer an
amendment to the minority report, providing
that as soon as the commissioners complete the
inventory, the governor is authorized to see
that the railroad is
NOT IMPAIRED IN VALUE,
Its steel rails taken up or its rolling stock
run off.
by December, 1890, the bill for betterments
will reach $3,000,000, judging by the present
claims. Governor Brown places the claim for
steel rails at 100000, while he and Martin
Il. Deoley testified that they only cost $780,
0OO. Governor Brown is president of the
Georgia Lease company and virtually so of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad.
lit is for Georgia to say emphatically that
Governor Brown shall not wreck her railroad,
and to 7 t% 80 i
PROSECUTE AND PUNISH HIM
If he attemDtS il. Was there ever SIlr1 a
scene in Georgia; such an exhibition of
cheek, such assumacy, such pictorial power as
displayed by Governor Brown in his last letter
in The CONSTITUTION? He threatens to tear
up the steel rails and replace them with iron
rails to strip it and run off your property.
1.-THE language of the majority report is:
Our master has threatened us he has his whip
in hand, and we know how he has controlled
legislatures in the past. He has made terri
BILE threats we don't know what to do'
Don't you think it is time we were saying
SOMETHING ABOUT THE BETTERMENTs.s
Who put out the gloomy accounts about
the condition Of the road, caused by Compel
ing lines? They are put out by friends of the
sale to run the road down and shut out every
friend of the lease. II railroad desires to
buy it-and it is the best railroad property in
the south-it will not bid for the lease.
''The gross income of the road last year,
ending May, 1886, is put down at 81 100000,
and the net earnings at $4,000. Do you be-
lieve it? Is there a man that does believe it
In 1889, Governor Brown will probably return
a minus of 100000. lie order has gone out.
RUN Dowa ltfR VALUE
"Our fathers bssltt titis road out of their own
pockets. Aleyssa9s ephells, with eloquence,
patriotism apaJ assnlent, passed the act. Ma
than G. Bagnett9 was q member Of that legisla-
ture. The people fefeioeti when the road was
completed It hassb een.a blessing to the peo-
pie of the state. FITS unblushingly proposed
to repudiate the memory, patriotism and judg
ment of our fathers.
"The saddest sight on earth is a threadbare
man pointing out fine places, as he says, all
these were mine and sold to pay my debts.
Shall we, the sons Of illustrious fathers, act as
spendthrifts and waste the patrimony be-
queathed us?"
"Atlanta is the legitimate offspring of this
road. Atlanta now with her 10000 popula-
ton, her manufactures and her extensive
traffic, with her religious and moral influence,
Atlanta, of whom every Georgian is proud
Atlanta is the product of the Western and At
lantic railroad. She owes all her power, wealth
and glory to the road When the road was
built the country between Atlanta and Chatta-
nooga was an Indian territory, Now it is %
garden spot of beauty, peopled by thousands of
refined, cultured and progressive people.
THE Central and Georgia railroads are the
products OF this road. The Western and At
lantic railroad has made Georgia well-nigh all
she is. Has it not paid the people of the state?
"In time of war she
TRANSPORTED OUR TROOPS.
She has made a scarcity of food in Georgia
an impossibility. Strike out the road and you
strike out the brightest gem that shines in the
crown of the empire state of the SOUTH
"Aladdin's lamp was hawked about the
streets OF Damascus for purchaser. This
Aladdin's lamp, this wealth. producer, the
Western and Atlantic railroad, is to be hawk
ed about for purchaser.
"The man who seeks to sell, who votes to
sell this road strikes out the main pillar of the
common school fund and of Georgia's chief
glory, her educational system.
"One-half the rental of the State road goes
to this fund. Strike out $150000 and you will
have to resort to direct taxation, and take the
money out of the pockets of the people-out of
the pockets of Impoverished farmers.
''Do you Observe how fast this common
school fund is disappearing? Eighteen hun
bred and sixty ffoffaYs goes to this fund from
1856 shares OF Georgia railroad stock. A bill is
pending to sell Those shares. Suppose you sell
1t. The constitlsiosl set those shares apart for
this fund sWhat fright have you to interfere ~
Mr.. HarreH of WAbster-"fhe bill provides
that q like sum shah be annually appropriated
to the common school fund. ~
Mr.. Felton-"Yes, out of the pockets of the
people,"
Mr.. Harrell-"Will not the proceeds of the
sale OF the shares go into the peoples
pocketsW
Mr. Felton-"No, sir Then there is $751;
284 received from the inspection of fertilizers.
LIS 10 INA -
eonvcts is attacked. The liquor tax of $780,
600 is going, going thank God, and owing to
the growth of prohibition, growing less every
day. The tax on shows will likely, be cut off
materially by the interstate commerce bill.
The poll tax of $4,000 is perhaps the only one
not attacked. And now it is proposed to strike
out at one fell swoop $4,000.
Georgia is the banner state for illiteracy.
/ am proud to say that Georgia will compete
with any state in intelligence, refinement and
enterprise. But look at the census returns.
Across the face of Georgia is black belt of
ignorance. 1t is proposed to deepen the shade
of this belt of infamy, shame and disgrace,
by knocking out the main pillar of education
in Georgia. If you do this you will wipe out
the last hope of the INDECENT, helpless, poverty
stricken children Of the state, carry despair
to their hearts, and drive them
TO PERPETUAL
ignorance.
eff could 1 would devote the whole rental
of the state road, 100000, to the common
school fund. / would consecrate every engine
every car, every depot on the road to the
service of the children, and baptiZe them with
the benedictions of the poor children of
Georgia
Captain J. E. Bryant introduced resolu-
ton in the legislature of 1870 for the lease of
the Western and Atlantic railroad, and
named no minimum price. Dunlap Scott
pushed the measure through that prevented